Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 16
The place of the oracle was a certain cavity in the mountain side, over which, when Cadmus came thither, he found a rude bower of branches.
Who acts: place, Cadmus, Delphi · What happens: be, come, find · To what, where: certain cavity, mountain side, rude bower
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Cadmus, Delphi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cavity | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 oracle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 oracle | det |
| 5 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 place | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cavity | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cavity | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cavity | amod |
| 9 | cavity | cavity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | compound |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cavity | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cavity | parataxis |
| 21 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bower | det |
| 26 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bower | amod |
| 27 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 branches | case |
| 29 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bower | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cavity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the place of the oracle | a certain cavity | the mountain side | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | Cadmus | a certain cavity | thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over which=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | Delphi | a rude bower of branches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bower=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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